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〔 〕 |callsign = |signature = |footnotes = }} Gano Dunn (October 18, 1870 – April 10, 1953〔 〕) was President of Cooper Union, and an early Chairman and CEO of the United States National Research Council.〔 ==Early life and education== Son of Civil War veteran General N. Gano Dunn and Amelia Sillick,〔 〕 Gano Dunn was born in Yorkville, New York. With a prospering law practice, General Dunn raised Gano and his younger brother Harris, across from Central Park, as befitted one of the "best-known lawyers in the city".〔 〕 Inspired by his paternal grandfather, schoolteacher and inventor Nathaniel Dunn, young Gano was encouraged in both scholarship and practical invention.〔 〕〔 〕 In 1883, when Gano was twelve, he accompanied the former Mrs. Maria G. Robins Caswell to Europe. They were there met by General Dunn. With the General and Maria masquerading as man and wife, Gano traveled Europe for a year and half. By 1886, General Dunn's were unknown to his wife Amelia and New York Society.〔 〕 At the age of fifteen, while attending City College of New York, he began to work for as an operator for the Western Union Telegraph Company. During this period, in March 1887, Mrs. Maria Robins filed a lawsuit against Gano's mother, Mrs. Amelia S. Dunn, over a deed to a New York City property. In 1884, under pressure from the her "runaway husband", Mrs. Dunn had been forced to transfer the property, then valued at $18,000, to General Dunn's office clerk, Henry G. Hunt for a single dollar. Hunt then transferred the deed to Mrs. Robins. Attempting to maintain her interests, Mrs. Dunn gave a second deed to her sister-in-law, who then transferred this second deed to Mrs. Dunn's sister. With affidavits filed by her estranged husband from Canada, and testimony from Mrs. Robins, the case stretched until November 1887. Mrs. Amelia Dunn finally won the lawsuit and the Hunt/Robins deed to the property was invalidated.〔〔 〕 As a young college student, Dunn visited the laboratory of Thomas A. Edison. Dunn declined Edison's job offer and continued perusing his college degree.〔 In 1889, the nineteen-year-old earned a Bachelor of Science degree while graduating Phi Beta Kappa.〔 Continuing his education at Columbia University, Dunn's life was changed by assisting Nikola Tesla. Electronic and radio pioneers Gano Dunn and Columbia Professor Edwin Howard Armstrong both served as pallbearers at Tesla's funeral.〔 In 1891, Dunn received the first degree in Electrical engineering granted by Columbia University. His father's whereabouts remained unknown, until in August 1892, reporters appeared at the Dunn home with dispatches from Denver. Without money and thought to be insane, the former lawyer had shot himself and died. Gano quickly telegraphed Denver authorities to hold the body. With the intention of bring the body back home, Gano expressed to reporters the "sorrow that the scandal has dragged the family name through mire should now be revived by suicide".〔 Gano Dunn put his father's scandals behind him. Vannevar Bush's biography of Gano simply states: "Dunn's father died before Gano had finished his education;".〔 Returning to CCNY, Dunn was one of two 1897 Master of Science graduates, alongside Stephen P. Duggan. Dunn was president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers from 1911 to 1912. Gano Dunn served as treasurer and later Chairman of Trustees of the Simplified Spelling Board.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gano Dunn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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